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Making Fitness or Martial Arts Part of Your Life
May 31st
Pick up a newspaper or turn on the local news on any given day and you are liable to hear a report on how Americans are getting fatter. Government statistics tell us that approximately 60 percent of Americans (127 million people) are overweight. Many women who enroll in martial arts or fitness clubs have a primary goal of losing weight. Unfortunately, some expect instant results. If they don’t see immediate weight loss they become discouraged and inpatient. Some even drop out altogether.
In my 20 plus years of training men, women and children of all shapes and sizes, I have learned that diets just don’t work. If they did, we wouldn’t have an obesity epidemic. The diet industry continually makes promises that they can’t deliver and is fleecing the public at the tune of $40 billion dollars a year. The diet industry doesn’t want to tell you the truth. And why should they with the kind of money they’re taking out of people’s misery? The truth is that weight loss is difficult for many people to achieve. Weight loss is a personal struggle, complicated by an individual’s upbringing, eating habits, metabolism, genetics and psychology. Yo-yo dieting and subjecting the body to strange eating regimes is much more detrimental to one’s physical and mental health than maintaining a steady weight.
I’m not here to sell you the same bill of goods as the diet industry. What I will do is encourage you to develop a healthy lifestyle and feel better about yourself. When you train, go with the attitude that you want to move, breathe and stretch. What’s important is that you focus on wellness. According to Steven Blair, director of research at the Cooper Institute for Aerobics Research in Dallas, Texas, “There is a misdirected obsession with weight and weight loss. The focus is wrong. It’s fitness that is the key.”
Fitness is also a word that has been presented to the public at large. Go to any gym in America, what do you see? Weights and cardio machines, not much more. The only thing you can do is train strength and endurance; that’s not enough for true fitness! And how about the gyms with Yoga classes? Great, add flexibility to the list, if your lucky. You see Yoga teachers are a dime a dozen in America, especially in fitness gyms. Finding a good teacher is like finding a needle in a haystack, and they’re not at your local “Fitness” Center! Truth is many of the “Yoga” instructors in gyms don’t know a great deal and could actually end up hurting you.
Fitness is far more in-depth then most people are looking at. If your not improving in all areas of human performance: strength, endurance, flexibility, coordination, balance, body unity, grace, speed, hand eye coordination, reactions (and the list goes on) you are not completely improving your fitness.
You will notice that with a good well rounded system of exercise, you will start having more strength, more endurance, and more flexibility, and all the other benefits mentioned above. If you want to lose weight, it will take patience, exercise, sensible diet changes, and sacrifice. There is no way around it. Focus on fitness, moving, breathing, stretching, feeling strong and enjoying your martial arts or fitness routine.
Calasanz is the creator of a system of exercise called Physical Arts. Movements based on his understanding of the martial arts that improve strength, endurance, flexibility, coordination, balance, body unity, weight loss, and tone. Physical Arts exercises are available at http://www.interdojo.com
MMA Training Centers Learn Martial Arts
May 19th
MMA Training Centers have a wide variety of different skills and disciplines of martial arts to offer someone interested in attending a training facility. MMA schools do a lot more than teach an individual how to beat up another person. Good Mixed Martial Arts Academies with great instructors will teach students the ART of being a true Mixed Martial Artist. As a student attending a Mixed Martial Arts school you will go through a life changing process of being a regular person then evolving and becoming a martial artist which forces you to focus the mind and train the body. When you transform into a mixed martial artist you will find that the journey is as much mental as it is physical which strengthens your brain and body. The many different disciplines of martial arts have come from all over the world with some of them dating back thousands of years.
The many different types of Mixed Martial Arts specialities include:
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, which involves joint locks, submissions, and chokes. The Gracie family made Jiu Jitsu famous at UFC 1
Muay Thai, which is referred to as The Art of Eight Limbs because the hands, shins, elbows, and knees are all used extensively in the martial arts form. Muay Thai is very popular in Thailand and many Southeast Asian countries.
Kickboxing, which refers to the sport of combining the grace and style of boxing with kicking. Kickboxing is a standing sport and does not allow continuation of the fight once a combatant has reached the ground.
Grappling which refers to techniques, maneuvers, and counters applied to an opponent in order to gain a physical advantage or to escape a dangerous position.
Wrestling is one of the oldest forms of martial arts and it uses grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws, takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds.
Self Defense which is the act of defending oneself, one’s property or the well-being of another from physical harm.
Fitness Boot Camp is a type physical training program that often combines running, interval training, and many other exercises using weights and/or body weight to lose body fat, increase cardiovascular efficiency, increase strength, and help people get into a routine of regular exercise.
The top mixed martial arts fighters in the world train at MMA training centers to learn new skills and touch up the skills they already posses. The majority of these top MMA training centers have coaches that specialize in all areas of mixed martial arts.
The best and most popular MMA Training centers and some of the fighters that train at them include:
Xtreme Couture in Las Vegas and fighters include Randy Couture, Forrest Griffin, and Gina Carano
American Top Team and fighters include Thiago Alves, Mike Brown, Kimbo Slice, Thiago Silva
Greg Jackson’s Mixed Martial Arts and fighters include Georges St. Pierre, Rashad Evans, and Keith Jardine
Team Quest and fighters include Dan Henderson, Matt Lindland, Chael Sonnen
It doesn’t matter if you want to fight in a cage or if you want to train in martial arts for the exercise and discipline there is something for the whole family at most MMA Training centers. MMA schools offer classes for all experience levels and all ages so there is no reason or excuse not to find the right school for you. The physical and mental results will speak for themselves so lookup a local school and give it a try and most MMA Training Centers offer first time students a free class so you can see if it is for you.
Josh Rafferty Professional MMA Fighter and Coach http://www.i-supplements.com Josh Rafferty has been absorbing and learning about Mixed Martial Arts and Fitness since childhood. Josh has competed in Mixed Martial Arts for over ten years both in the ring and in the corner of some legendary fighters. His fighting career has made him famous, appearing in the hit television shows The Ultimate Fighter and Adrenalin and even made a cameo appearance in the major motion picture Redbelt. Find more from Josh at http://www.i-supplements.com
